Post by admin4laney on Oct 26, 2005 12:34:58 GMT -5
Tri-State Marine Killed In Roadside Bombing
POSTED: 11:46 am EDT October 21, 2005
UPDATED: 5:24 pm EDT October 21, 2005
ANDERSON TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- A Tri-State Marine was killed when a bomb hit his Humvee in Iraq Thursday, News 5 reported.
Staff Sgt. Richard Pummill, 27, was a member of the weapons company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines Division, based out of Camp LeJeune, N.C.
Pummill, an Anderson High School alumnus, was married and had a 3-year-old son.
His mother, Lynn, of Cherry Grove, was notified of Pummill's death Thursday night. She didn't know that his July deployment date would be the last time she'd see her son alive.
"They sent out nine bus loads," she said.
She said Pummill had a soft spot in his heart for children. One of his hardest experience in Iraq, she said, was when a child was hit by a car, and the boy's father brought him to the Marines for help.
"They were taking him to the hospital, and he was tore up because they lost the child on the way," she said.
Another Marine was also killed in Thursday's attack near the Iraq town of Nassar Wa Al Salaam, close to the Syrian border.
Pummill is the 18th person from the Tri-State killed during the latest war in Iraq.
www.channelcincinnati.com/news/5144082/detail.html
POSTED: 11:46 am EDT October 21, 2005
UPDATED: 5:24 pm EDT October 21, 2005
ANDERSON TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- A Tri-State Marine was killed when a bomb hit his Humvee in Iraq Thursday, News 5 reported.
Staff Sgt. Richard Pummill, 27, was a member of the weapons company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines Division, based out of Camp LeJeune, N.C.
Pummill, an Anderson High School alumnus, was married and had a 3-year-old son.
His mother, Lynn, of Cherry Grove, was notified of Pummill's death Thursday night. She didn't know that his July deployment date would be the last time she'd see her son alive.
"They sent out nine bus loads," she said.
She said Pummill had a soft spot in his heart for children. One of his hardest experience in Iraq, she said, was when a child was hit by a car, and the boy's father brought him to the Marines for help.
"They were taking him to the hospital, and he was tore up because they lost the child on the way," she said.
Another Marine was also killed in Thursday's attack near the Iraq town of Nassar Wa Al Salaam, close to the Syrian border.
Pummill is the 18th person from the Tri-State killed during the latest war in Iraq.
www.channelcincinnati.com/news/5144082/detail.html
